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At least 4 dead as airplane crashes into sea near airport in Cote d’Ivoire
Date: 2017-10-14 11:10:39 GMT - Cote d'Ivoire - Africa - SN:30 - ID:7038715
ABIDJAN, Oct 14 (MENA) - At least four people died when a small cargo airplane crashed off the shores of Cote d'Ivoire. The turboprop plane was flying during a storm accompanied by heavy rain and lightning, Russia Today channel reported on ....
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AU donates food items to drought-hit Somalia
Date: 2017-10-11 20:03:03 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:102 - ID:7035007
MOGADISHU, Oct 11 (MENA) - The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) said on Wednesday that it had donated an assortment of food items worth 100,000 US dollars to the Somali government to aid victims affected by drought, Shabelle News ....
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Kenya: 2 dead as gunmen open fire killing university staff
Date: 2017-10-10 10:52:14 GMT - Kenya - Africa - SN:26 - ID:7032251
NAIROBI, Oct 10 (MENA) - A Kenyan police official says gunmen have killed two employees of a technical university in Mombasa on Kenya's Indian Ocean coast in a suspected extremist attack, ABC News reported on Tuesday. The assault occurred as ....
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AMISOM suffers from heavy losses in attack by Al Shabaab in Somalia
Date: 2017-10-08 15:20:35 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:56 - ID:7029577
MOGADISHU, Oct 8 (MENA) - The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) suffered Sunday heavy losses in a land mine explosion planted by terrorist Al Shabaab group in Shabelle south of Somalia, eyewitnesses told Somali Shabelle media network. The ....
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UN Rights office denounces killings of demonstrators in Cameroon
Date: 2017-10-07 19:39:21 GMT - Switzerland - Africa - SN:65 - ID:7028273
GENEVA, Oct 7 (MENA) - The UN Human Rights office denounced the killings of demonstrators from Cameroon’s Anglophone community in towns across the Northwest and Southwest regions, The Voice of America (VOA) reported Saturday. Government figures ....
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East Congo militia attacks UN base, 5 killed
Date: 2017-10-06 16:07:57 GMT - Democratic Republic of Congo - Africa - SN:56 - ID:7026800
KINSHASA, Oct 6 (MENA) - Militia fighters in eastern Congo attacked a UN peacekeeping base on Friday, triggering clashes that left two of the fighters dead and two peacekeepers slightly wounded, the UN mission was quoted by CBC News as ....
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Somali president arrives in Sudan on official visit
Date: 2017-10-04 14:40:43 GMT - Sudan - Africa - SN:46 - ID:7023711
KHARTOUM, Oct 4 (MENA) - Somali President Mohamed Abdalla Mohamed arrived on Wednesday in Khartoum, leading a high-level delegation, on a two-day official visit to Sudan. The delegation comprises ministers of foreign affairs, finance, agriculture ....
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Amnesty International says concerned over violence in Cameroon
Date: 2017-10-02 21:22:00 GMT - Cameroon - Africa - SN:88 - ID:7020779
YAOUNDE, Oct 2 (MENA) - Amnesty International on Monday expressed worry over violence committed by Cameroon's security forces in the country's English-speaking regions, ABC News reported Monday. Tens of thousands of English-speaking Cameroonians ....
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Congo military plane crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12 - minister
Date: 2017-09-30 13:58:23 GMT - Democratic Republic of Congo - Africa - SN:44 - ID:7016764
KINSHASA, Sept 30 (MENA) - A military cargo plane crashed in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa on Saturday, killing its 12 crew members, the Daily Mail quoted the defense minister as saying. "I confirm that a military aircraft ....
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17 soldiers killed in Shabaab attack on Somali military base in Mogadishu
Date: 2017-09-29 07:23:56 GMT - Somalia - Africa - SN:9 - ID:7014606
MOGADISHU, Sept 29 (MENA) - As many as 17 Somali soldiers were killed on Friday morning when Somalia’s al Shabaab militants attacked a military base in southwest of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. “Two Mujahideen rammed into Barire military base ....
